A few things for HL2 and CS:Source

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http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=365

Notes on the Half-Life 2: Deathmatch release
December 1, 2004, 3:50 pm · valve

Last night at about 9:00 PST, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was released. Earlier today there were about 12,000 simultaneous HL2DM players. People seem to have gotten the hang of tossing toilets and radiators and cars at each other pretty quickly.

Immediately after the release of HL2DM last night, users who run Source Engine games (including Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source) under DirectX 7 or who run with less than the recommended amount of RAM were affected by a game crash. This caused them to be unable to run HL2 or CS:S for a short time. Shortly after midnight PST, we released a fix which cleared the problem up.

We're planning a small dedicated server release soon to improve weapon re-spawn behavior.

Also, If you're handy with Hammer (Valve's level editor), be sure to enter the HL2DM map contest.

We hope everyone's enjoying the game.

http://www.planethalflife.com

Counter Strike Source: PAF Map Pack  Comment!
12/1/2004 23:53 PST | Half-Life 2 Editing | by Briggsy
Fileplanet has just added a new Map Pack for CS:S, Some of our favouret CS maps have now been converted to CS:S for your pleasure:
aim_ak-colt_v3.bsp - Created by the_zombie
aim_akm4ruins2.bsp - Created by Tysn
aim_badneighbors.bsp - Created by kn!fe
aim_map_duelies.bsp - Created by oxident
aim_shotgun3.bsp - Created by [TUF]Gods^Spear
aim_tmp.bsp - Created by Justin Iezzi
aim_usp_v2.bsp - Created by the_zombie
ar_cbq.bsp - Created by ARTO-UK
cs_assault_lith.bsp - Created by Monolith
cs_assault_mini.bsp - Created by Shark
cs_assault_ren.bsp - Created by unknown
cs_lanpartymayhem.bsp - Created by -=SkYnEt=-
de_inferno_s_v2.bsp - Created by Shark
de_officesiege.bsp - Created by Mediocre
de_rats.bsp - Created by RomeoJGuy
dm_bloodbath.bsp - Submitted by {LOD} Scarecrow
y_dustdm.bsp - Created by pixartist
he_tennis.bsp - Created by onboarderror
m_maze.bsp - Created by Mu7e
marblehalls010.bsp - Created by unknown
nyaarena.bsp - Created by --LimStift
OBE_Jungle.bsp - Created by onboarderror
pachinko.bsp - Created by unknown
propdrop.bsp - Created by unknown
puf_deagle_warehouse.bsp 'Sourced' by Pufuwozu. Original by Alexander 'shogun' Cohen
raghostie.bsp - Created by unknown
spectrum.bsp - Created by unknown
xi_rockyaim.bsp - Created by (.xi^Asuka)
zt_assualt.bsp - Created By Zeta
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I have that map pack, I didnt like how it changed the picture on the menu tho.